Gold Editorials & Commentary

In recent weeks there have been truckloads of rhetoric suggesting and wishing US stocks will continue to rise…or may soon fall. Needless to say, this is perplexing and confusing to the average investor, who is understandably indecisive of what to do….SELL, BUY...

As I have said on numerous occasions, there are several patterns that I find hard to rely upon in any chart, and one of those is a truncated bottom. This is the only way in which one would be able to consider that the metals have completed their 4+ year correction...

Today is judgment day for markets as the Fed decides on interest rates for the last time this year. What can we expect for the gold market?

Wall Street has a new hobby use good money to create the illusion that all is well; only unlike most hobbies, the intent is to distort reality and reward lazy insiders for doing next to nothing. Gone are the days of actually trying to improve the bottom line, by...

Tomorrow’s FOMC announcement is arguably the most important Fed event of the past 35 years. It’s a defining moment in Janet Yellen’s career, and so I’ve dubbed it as… “J-Day”! The bottom line: Janet Yellen is going to attempt to raise interest rates without...

Late in yesterday’s day session, gold reached a low of 1058.20, and in the overnight session, that low held. We are now looking for the first signs of an impulsive sequence. That will confirm that all of wave *b* of .b. is complete at the 1058.20 low. A break above...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) just made a historic decision for international finance by adding the Chinese yuan to its basket of currencies. The yuan joins four other currencies in the SDR basket including the U.S. dollar, the euro, British pound and...

During the past several weeks, we have read numerous accounts of "we are reducing risk before the Fed", which has a very rational fear-of-the-unknown basis. Over the same period, we cannot recall reading one anecdotal example of any institutional investor that was "...

Money Week editor John Stepek has looked at the recent mutual fund collapse in the junk bond market and correctly warns that it is a canary in the coal mine:

The US House of Representatives approved the Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization (FORM) Act of 2015. What does it imply for the Fed’s independence and the gold market?

Maybe you saw the new video a few weeks back — Amazon mocked up yet another drone aircraft (they demoed the first one in 2014) and videotaped it dropping off a tiny package from its robotic pincers in someone’s backyard.

A few days ago we wrote about the potential effects of a Fed rate hike on precious metals. After consulting history we concluded that the rate hike would be immediately bullish for precious metals but subsequently bearish.

Jason Hamlin is the founder of Gold Stock Bull and publishes a highly-rated investment newsletter focused on strategies for profiting in today's turbulent markets. Mr. Hamlin has a background analyzing charts and trends for the world’s largest market research...

Although gold was down for the week it was the best performing precious metal. Perhaps gold was underpinned by the news that China added the most to its central bank gold reserves in five months, according to Bloomberg. Gold prices saw the biggest drop in more...

Gold fell again last week and stayed within our forecast channel. In our considered opinion we are having a short-term bounce to relieve some of the oversold conditions from last month’s extreme drop.

Americans purchased more goods and services at retail stores in November. What does it imply for the Fed’s policy and the gold market?

Wall Street’s proclivity to create serial equity bubbles off the back of cheap credit has once again set up the middle class for disaster. The warning signs of this next correction have now clearly manifested, but are being skillfully obfuscated and trivialized by...

Max Keiser interviewed GoldCore Research Director, Mark O’Byrne last week and the video was released on Saturday.

A perfect example of something completely out of whack, but melded into the new "normal”, are negative interest rates throughout much of the world. These negative interest rates are no longer for only short dated maturities. Rates are negative in some cases out...

At this point, the possibility that the bull market is over is just that: a possibility! But the market should not keep us guessing too long about whether or not this becomes a fact. Many credible economic and geopolitical arguments can be made for it, but we’ll...

Today we are going to review irrefutable evidence that a slow motion train wreck is already well underway across global markets that will end with the last wagons on the train, the S&P500 index and the Dow Jones Industrials, disappearing into the abyss right...

Gold speculator and large futures traders increased their gold bullish positions last week after five straight weeks of declining positions, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on...

Query: Come this Wednesday, 16 December, shall the Policy Statement from the Federal Open Market Committee confirm their having voted to nick the Federal Reserve Bank's overnight lending rate from 0.25% up a notch to 0.50%?

The energy markets are tanking and are at levels that have not been seen since "The Recession" of 2009. Opinions are divided on the effects of the fall. Some say it is good for consumers, whereas, others say it is bad for the global economy.

Buying on the Margin Was the Number One Cause of the 1929 Stock Crash! Historical sources show that margin debt was about 8.1% of GDP in late 1929…just prior to the CRASH. Understandably, exuberant and irrational buying shares on the margin sparked and fueled the...

The Rothschild-now-globalist template for gaining control over all money, and now the world, has been create a Problem, let an adverse Reaction develop, then present the desired Solution. On a grander scale, there was the US Civil War to divide the country, then...

Gold sector is on major sell signal. Cycle is down. A recovery is in progress but condition can be very choppy. Silver is on a long-term sell signal and investors should be in cash or short. Short-term is on sell signal. It’s too late to short and too early to buy...

The markets have for the most part already priced in a Fed rate hike, which is expected next week. Yesterday Fed Funds futures indicated an 80% chance of a rate hike. It would be the first hike in roughly 9 years. The Fed last began a new hiking cycle in 2004. We...

A geopolitical game of chance seems to have dragged the investing world back into the mire. The current boom was in response or consequence of the series of quantitative easing and loose monetary policies adopted to escape the 2008 financial crash.

The word play in the title is in reference to the ridiculous fuss over COMEX gold inventory and other promotions masquerading as fundamentals put out by cartoons masquerading as analysis.